Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. VIII.
A signe of true wisdom appereth in obseruing Gods commandments, 6. in
this shorte time of meriting eternal reward. 9. Rule of others, 11. and
want of feare hurt manie. 14. why God suffereth the wicked to prosper,
and the iust to be afflicted in this life, no mortal man can know.
1 The wisdom of a man note shineth in his countenance, and
the most mightie wil change his face,
2 I obserue the
mouth of the king, and the precepts of the oath of God.
3 Hasten not to depart from his face, nor continew thou in
an euil worke: because al that he pleaseth, he wil doe,
4 and
his word is ful of powre: neither can anie man say to him.
Why dost thou so?
5 He that kepeth the precept, shal finde
no euil. The hart of a wiseman vnderstandeth time and
answer.
6 There is a time for al busines, and opportunitie,
and much affliction of man:
7 because he is ignorant of
thinges past, and thinges to come he can know by no
messenger.
8 It is not in mans powre to prohibite the spirite,
neither hath he powre in the day of death, neither is he
suffered to rest when warre is at hand, neither shal impietie
saue the impious.
9 Al these thinges I haue considered, and
gaue my hart on al the workes, that are done vnder the sunne.
Sometime man ruleth ouer man to his owne hurt.
10 I saw the
impious buried: who also when they yet liued, were in holie
place, and were praised in the citie as men of iust workes. But
this also is vanitie.
11 Because sentence is not speedely
pronounced against the euil, the children of men committe
euils without anie feare.
12 But yet a sinner by this that he doth
euil an hundred times, & by patience is borne withal, I know
that it shal be good to them that feare God, which dread his
face.
13 Let there be no good to the impious, neither let his
dayes be prolonged, but as a shadow let them passe, that
feare not the face of our Lord.
14 There is also an other
note vanitie, which is done vpon the earth. There are iust men,
to whom euils happen, as though they had done the workes
of the impious: and there are impious men, which are so
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secure, as though they had the dedes of the iust. But this also
I iudge most vaine.
15 I therfore haue praised mirth that there
was no good thing for a man vnder the sunne, but that he
should eate, and drinke, and be glad: and this only he should
take away with him of his labour in the dayes of his life, which
God hath geuen him vnder the sunne.
16 And I haue set my
hart to know wisdom, and to vnderstand the note distraction
that is in the earth: There is a man that dayes and nightes
taketh no slepe with his eyes.
17 And I vnderstood that man
can finde no reason of al those workes of God, that are done
vnder the sunne: and the more he shal labour to seke, so
much the lesse he can finde: yea if the wisman shal say, that
he knoweth, he is not able to finde it.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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